Clara Jo
Goethe/SPACE Perlin Noise – Sound Art Residency 2016

Multidisciplinary artist Clara Jo explored the methods by which virtual interfaces are adapting our own orientation, investigating how user’s subjectivity occupies a mediated position between lived experience and simulated presence. 

The computer is moving out into physical and urban reality; since Mark Weiser’s call 
for a “computer for the 21st century” in 1991, we have witnessed a migration from the desktop towards integrating computers and networks into our surroundings, with the rise of augmented reality, ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), pervasive computing and the internet of things. These scripted spaces are complex and networked software structures, where algorithms organise and determine user’s experience. 
 
During her Goethe/SPACE residency, Jo was interested in interactive, virtual reality interfaces geared towards exhibition in public space. She explored how the functional, aesthetic, political and social experiences of these digital interfaces manifest themselves. Her residency culminated in the workshop (in)versions – Generating Narratives Through Virtual Transcription, where she invited participants to co-narrate new stories around objects by translating them into imagined VR situations.